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Setting up VLAN on Win Server 2008 VMware guest

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http://serverfault.com – We've a Windows Server 2008 host on VMware ESXi 4 and want to isolate it from the rest of the network. That is, I want no traffic from the Windows Server 2008 to be allowed on the normal network. I was thinking a VLAN would do this if set up properly. Involved in this is granting access over a VPN from an Endian (Linux) firewall to this host. Also, between the firewall and the VMware host are two Cisco (LinkSys rebranded!) SG 200-26 switches. The VMware host is using dual network cards in a failover configuration. As I see it, there's several problems that crop up: How is the VLAN recogni (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 04/27/2012 – Made popular on 04/27/2012

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